WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said, “The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents. It helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it.”

A number of emails between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and close associates, including his wife, reportedly hacked by the transparency group Anonymous, were leaked a few months ago, but did not reveal much beyond the fact that Syria’s rulers seem far removed from the actual conflict that has plagued the country for over a year and contributed to the death of thousands of people.

WikiLeaks has so far released only a handful of the more than two million emails it has. What they reveal is that some Western defense and intelligence corporations have attempted to evade the sanctions placed on the Syrian regime as of late.

One SELEX email discusses helicopter accessories intended to be sold to the Syrian regime, and the difficulties in facing the sanctions. “Due to USA imposition to not deliver any electronic components manufacturer by them,” one email says, “we have to found (sic) an alternative solution.”

The support has continued even though outside powers are well aware that both sides in the conflict have committed serious atrocities and human rights abuses and despite the fact that experts have repeatedly said such policies are worsening the conflict.

Author: John Glaser

What the hell?! So where are all the damning US videos and the rest of the stuff that's been promised for the past year or so? Want to put a stop to empire I'd have thought you'd go for the throat instead of playing footsie with information on peripheral regimes.

Ike_Hall

They apparently don't exist.

Charles

The big development today According to Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author & historian is that Wikileaks is a NATO/CIA conduit for various kinds of fake or real documents that are released with political aims in mind, and Assange in that sense is a tool of NATO. See the interview on PressTV today.

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